The big day finally arrived. The kids along with volunteer cardiologists, nurses, even former campers boarded a US Airways plane on Thursday.

“Who is all excited to go to camp?” “I am,” said some of the campers.

Even though Dan and Margaret Majetich have been offering this trip for 17 years, they never grow tired of seeing all the little smiles and bright eyes. The couple started the organization after losing both of their sons, Nick and Kelly to heart disease.

“We didn't have any more children, so dealing with these kids and being able to take them and be around them, it keeps us going,” Dan Majetich said.

The camp is changing lives one heart at a time.

“There is despair at the beginning because you have no idea where it's going, but there's a lot of hope and great, amazing things that can happen at the end,” Vega said.